I think autonomous bots are pretty much what I'd call 'genuine' robots because they work on their own programming. Even if they aren't so advanced, it can be fun to watch more cleverly programmed bots try to attack each other.

My apologies Simon, you are correct, and while I try to not make posts like the one above, sometimes I just can't help myself. I have a low-tolerance mindset with things like this as I've been on a couple of forums in the past (related to other things) that have been ruined with posters like this. However I realise the difference between that and this in that that was people who could help it, while this is someone who can't.

Again, my apologies.

Back on topic!

I plan to make an autonomous bot when I get my mindstorms NXT, will make a minisumo bot first of all while I learn the programming suite etc, but I plan some things a lot more complex we'll see what I an come up with, was thinking of some sort of antweight testing quite, which you put your ant in, it would then test the maximum speed and torque output, pulling power, etc. would be interesting to say the least ^^